BAF April 2026 Newsletter: time to lock in.

Schedule Updates: 

CITY PARK:

Friday classes are now at 3PM!

Saturday and Sunday will stay the same… 11pm

ALGIERS POINTE:

Algiers Pointe now has a Partner Up Program in Place. This is an appointment only self-organized group, where community membership coordinate schedules and set up appointments to share the cost of private training. If you are interested in getting in on the conversation and joining us for a workout, please reach out to me and I will add you to the group chat. 

Spring time is all about renewal, and this is a great time to reset, and review.

We’ve been hitting the kettlebells hard for the past 3 months, and I am so proud of the progress everyone has made! 

It’s the one year anniversary of starting our training in the park. 

Just to review everything we’ve done:

Training Block 1: Technique + Muscular Endurance

Training Block 2: Hypertrophy + intro to free weights 

Training Block 3: 2 Strength Days + 1 Conditioning Day

Training Block 4: Calisthenics + Conditioning

Training Block 5: Kettlebell Technique + Explosiveness 

Our next training block we are returning to our roots, bodyweight and resistance band training!

Don’t worry, we will still use our free weights periodically, but remember… we can’t do everything all the time, and

variation is how we keep out bodies progressing. 

We create variation by changing up

• the heaviness of the resistance

• the rep ranges

• total volume of each movement

• the placement of the weight in relation to the movement

• the movement pattern itself (e.g. switching from sumo stance squat to a narrow stance squat)

If we just tried to lift heavier and heavier weights ad infinitum, we would miss out on some important energy systems that are developed in the lighter weights and higher rep ranges. If we keep tearing down the muscle without periods of proper recovery, you risk overtraining and performance eventually decreases. 

In the opposite, if we just lifted light weights all the time, we would eventually stop challenging our muscles… we would plateau because the stimulus is too little to promote any adaptations. 

Now that we are stronger than ever, when we return to our resistance band training, we may find that we are able to connect with the muscles EVEN MORE, the bands you used last year may feel like baby weights and you’re ready to progress to the next level.

Hypertrophy is important for training because the more muscle tissue we have, we will have more resources to lift heavier weights. 

We also want high quality “intelligent” muscles. While doing simple exercises can do wonders for your physical appearance, teaching your body complex and technical movements will give you greater control over your body. 

We live in a 3 dimensional world, so I doesn’t make sense to limit ourselves to 2 dimensional training. 

We need to train complex movement patterns to help up prepare for our lives. 

But also, by dissecting a complex movement patterns into its many parts, we can fully understand how to execute those movements effectively.